Photos: NASA releases newest photos from Mars

Check out the full-resolution images taken by a rear Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of August 5, 2012.

This image released by NASA August 7, 2012 shows shows one of the first views from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of August 5 PDT (August 6 EDT). It was taken through a “fisheye” wide-angle lens on one of the rover’s Hazard-Avoidance cameras.